"You all have to acquire proper education along with politics. Not only for our party, you will have to work for welfare of the nation...I won't give you a job on consideration of being a party-man," she told the Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) workers while addressing the silver jubilee programme and reunion of her party's student wing at Ramna Park yesterday.

The prime minister said, "The JCD workers should be good at education and expert at creative work. Their character and work will have to be a model."

She said her government wants "violence-free" educational institutions and the JCD will have to play a pioneering role to this end.

Criticising the main opposition party, she said, "The party is now trying to create an anarchic situation in the country by calling hartal. They are now busy keeping people in distress at the beginning of a new year."

The prime minister said, "We got only terrorism, corruption, anarchy, famine, a map and a flag during the rule of a party after independence."

It is now clear to the people that the alliance government is working for people and has done everything for them, she told her audience.

A large number of JCD workers from different units, including Dhaka University, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka Medical College, Dhaka College, Jagannath University College and city wards, joined the function. JCD President Shahabuddin Laltu presided.

The prime minister inaugurated the silver jubilee celebration by releasing pigeons and balloons. The programme began with national anthem and party song. The JCD was formed this day in 1979.